Euphorbiaceae FAMILY

Acalypha lanceolata

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Acalypha lanceolata is an erect or straggling, sparsely branched annual plant that can grow from 10 - 100cm tall[ 305 Title Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk Publication Author Website http://www.hear.org/pier/scientificnames/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A very good website detailing weed species that have been introduced into the Pacific Islands. , 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. , 713 Title Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/rfk/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An online resource giving botanical information, and a little bit about plant usage, for over 2,700 species of plants found in the Australian rainforest. , 1913 Title Revision and phylogeny of Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) in Malesia Publication Blumea 55, 2010: 21-60 Author Sagun V.G., Levin G.A. & van Welzen P.C. Website http://10.3767/000651910X499141 Publisher Year 2010 ISBN Description ]. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine. One report says that it is sometimes cultivated as a vegetable[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical east Africa, through the Arabian Peninsula, Indian Subcontinent and southeast Asia to New Guinea, northern Australia and the western Pacific.

HabitatLocally common along roadsides or in abandoned fields, at elevations up to 400 metres[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. , 1913 Title Revision and phylogeny of Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) in Malesia Publication Blumea 55, 2010: 21-60 Author Sagun V.G., Levin G.A. & van Welzen P.C. Website http://10.3767/000651910X499141 Publisher Year 2010 ISBN Description ]. A weed of cultivation, roadsides and house-yards in New Guinea, often in partly-shaded places[ 305 Title Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk Publication Author Website http://www.hear.org/pier/scientificnames/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A very good website detailing weed species that have been introduced into the Pacific Islands. ].